452 Tbe American Thoroughbred 



track at Saratoga. As explained above, the real 

 secret was a "little short of work." 



At Brooklyn, Hamburg beat Sly Fox and 

 Handball in a canter, by eight lengths, in the 

 Spring Special Stakes, one mile and a sixteenth ; 

 time, 1.49. At Sheepshead Bay he gave Loiterer 

 and Murillo 10 pounds each, and beat them, 

 pulled up, by six lengths in the Swift Stakes, 

 seven furlongs. Eleven days afterward he won 

 the Realization, one mile and five furlongs, easily, 

 by two lengths, in 2.51 J, beating Plaudit (winner 

 of the Kentucky Derby, etc., and a high-class 

 race-horse). The Huguenot (winner of the Withers 

 Stakes, the Brooklyn Derby, etc.), Handball, Lat- 

 son, and George Boyd. 



Hamburg's last race was for the Brighton Cup, 

 two miles and a quarter, which he won from start 

 to finish, by one-sixteenth of a mile, beating 

 imported Ogden (winner of the Futurity, etc.), 

 who finished lengths in front of Howard Mann 

 (winner of the Brooklyn Handicap, etc.); track 

 fair; time, 4.02 J. 



